What is EA doing wrong?

[shio]

Gnizmo said:

shio said:

Tell that to Age of Conan, which most thought it was a much bigger flop than Warhammer Online, and now is increasing it's subscriptions.

Source? All the anecdotal evidence I have seen says the game is dying a painful death. I know more than a few people expecting someone to pull the plug on the game.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/age-of-conan-turns-corner-says-funcom

"In Funcom's latest financial report, there's some encouraging news regarding the performance of its troubled MMO Age of Conan - although nothing as concrete as subscriber numbers.

The report for the first quarter of 2009 says that the fantasy MMO's subscriber retention has improved and "a significant increase in new customers in Q1 compared to Q4 has led to a stable and solid subscriber base". Players are spending longer in the game on average, too.

The company reported earnings of USD 7.7m, largely from Age of Conan subscriptions. That's actually a dip from the USD 8.7m it made in the last quarter of 2008. But the painful USD 23m losses of that period have been replaced by a modest USD 1.5m operating profit."